Articles filed under Dundee Area Unit District 300
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Dist. 300's Run for the Bear continues to growOct 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Participation in the recent annual Run for the Bear, hosted by Eastview Elementary School, increased by more than 33 percent this year, largely due to District 300's fir...
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Dist. 300 superintendent will retire in 2011Oct 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Community Unit District 300 Superintendent Ken Arndt has announced he will retire at the end of the 2010-11 school year. Arndt's retirement package, as well as his salar...
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District 300 lucks out with timing of bond saleOct 07, 2008 11:00 pm - The credit crisis that has stymied the ability of banks and businesses to conduct routine transactions is now affecting local schools and towns. The market for municipa...
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Fight leads to five arrests at JacobsOct 02, 2008 11:00 pm - Five male students were arrested Thursday morning after what appears to have been a gang-related fight at Jacobs High School, school officials and police said. The fight...
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ACT scores rise at District 300 high schoolsOct 01, 2008 11:00 pm - After dropping last year, ACT scores in Community Unit District 300 are back up again, according to the district's latest ACT report. The district's overall score on the...
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Eighth graders challenged to show kindnessSep 25, 2008 11:00 pm - Earlier this week, I watched a presentation from Rachel's Challenge along with several hundred Jacobs High School students. The program uses the life and diaries of Rach...
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Cambridge Lakes Charter School loses 100 studentsSep 25, 2008 11:00 pm - Enrollment at the Cambridge Lakes Charter School dropped roughly 100 students - or about 20 percent - this year, according to the latest enrollment data from Community U...
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Homecoming hullabaloo: High schools gear up for fall festivitiesSep 25, 2008 11:00 pm - Floats, football and fun marked Harry D. Jacobs High School's homecoming events in Algonquin last week, just as they will color homecoming events for Dundee-Crown and El...
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Jacobs challenges students to improve climateSep 23, 2008 11:00 pm - Francesca DiMaggio knows teenagers are hard to convince. The assistant principal and activities director at Jacobs High School acknowledges "there's a lot of cynics in t...
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Teen questioned over Perry school threatsSep 18, 2008 11:00 pm - Carpentersville police questioned and released a teenage boy this week in connection with threatening phone calls made to a local elementary school. Police Thursday conf...